Discussion Question # 15

Love is in the air people! Happy Valentines Day to all of you.

Here is the assignment this week: Shakespeare wrote many plays, but he is also famous for his sonnet's ( kind of poem). You will have two weeks to complete this assignment. You are going to memorize one of his most famous sonnets, Sonnet 18. It is a romantic poem that also gets you credit for a GRAND MASTER CHALLENGE question worth 10 points on the challenge board!! You willl recite the sonnet in class or on video if you don't want to do it in class. I can't wait to hear your wonderful and poetic voices! Here is the sonnet.

Progress...but in this case...perfection!

SONNET 18


Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.